Hot on the heels of my first successful TV repair, my wife has requested that I take a stab a the OTHER broken set we have in our home.

It's a Samsung, model number LA32B530P7RXXP. When you plug it in and power it up, it acts "normally" for the first five or six seconds and then powers down. I had this problem previously and did a Google search for some sort of factory reset. My search resulted in some advice to hold the power button for a period of time to effectuate a reset. This worked for a while.

After working fine for a bit, the problem resurfaced in the same manner as before. I again tried the reset, but this time to no avail.

Also, my memory was a bit faulty. The set only powers up for about a second or two before shutting back down. When I tried holding "Exit," it didn't behave any differently. I tried this both when the TV was turned off (plugged in, but before pushing the power button), and when it was on, before it shut itself down. The only effect holding exit has is that the small red light on the front of the set blinks rapidly, indicating it is getting some signal from the remote.